by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 31, 2022 | nature, poetry
Surveying Property in Alabama Acres of yellow wild flowers carpet a field Soft and fragrant beneath the hooves of grazing cattle. A half mile further west, another is clothed in white. A pond mirrors the blue of the April sky As a single white cloud admires its own...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 31, 2022 | Teaching
I receive messages and calls regularly from people who have not found the comfort and guidance they were seeking through traditional counseling or from church leaders (or at a price for counseling they could afford to sustain!) When I hear some of the experiences, it...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 31, 2022 | Friendship
I took lunch and visited with an 88-years-young friend of mine yesterday. We laughed and told stories for 2 hours. She showed me pictures from her youth…WOW! What a stunningly beautiful young woman! That doesn’t surprise me at all as she continues to be a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 31, 2022 | blessing, spiritual formation
It’s been “one of those days” when everything on my calendar went smoothly and God was so palpably present that it was……..sacred! Even a 25 minute car ride to take a young lady for lab work was precious….. conversation so intimate...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 31, 2022 | poetry
…..Nevertheless My mind recalls unholy things, Times when I was cruel. My heart, with rising sorrow rings In deafening, clashing duel. (…Nevertheless, I am still with thee.) Selfishly blinded by my own needing, I struggle through each day Hardened against Thy...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 31, 2022 | change, Holy Spirit
from 3/31/2021 Winnow: blow a current of air through (grain) in order to remove the chaff….. to be blown through by a wind …. When I felt discontent building as I adjusted to widowhood in the lakeside home where Bill and I had lived for 16 years, and in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 31, 2022 | communion, God's attributes
Haley Blauch writes a thoughtful and enlightening explanation of the relationship between the Triune Godhead and prayer that demands a level of vulnerability many in the feminist movement have difficulty understanding and implementing in relation to God. As one who...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 30, 2022 | God's will
I happened across a social media post by a pastor I know in another state… “Wondering what God’s will is for your life? Love God, neighbor, and self with your whole heart and all your actions. Inside of that, God’s will is for you to just do what you want. No tea...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 30, 2022 | Faith, spiritual growth, theology
Some have mocked the distress and angst supposedly expressed by evangelicals over so many young people’s “deconstruction” of their faith and why it is essentially not a rejection of Jesus, but is rejection of institutionalism and politicalization of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 29, 2022 | blessing in ordinary miracles
One morning morning as I put gas in my car, I looked down and saw a penny on the ground by the door of my car. I smiled and picked it up. I had seen a story on the internet in the past and, as God would have it, when I got back to my office that particular morning a...
